Every intellectual's big brother : George Orwell's literary siblings

George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. This title explores the ways in which numerous disparate groups, Orwell's intellectual 'siblings,' have adapted their views of Orwell to fit their own agendas and how in doing so they have changed our perceptions of Orwell himself.再读一些...

Prologue : "Orwell" still lives --
Introduction : George Orwell and his intellectual progeny --
"Not one of us?" : Orwell and the London left of the 1930s and '40s --
"A moral genius" : Orwell and the movement writers of the 1950s --
"London letter" from a family cousin : the New York intellectuals' adoption of Orwell --
"A leftist by accident? : Orwell and the American cultural conservatives --
Does Orwell matter? : between fraternity and fratricide at the Nation --
Iraq, the internet, and "the Big O" in 2003 : a centennial report --
The man within the writings --
Unlessons from my intellectual big brother --
Epilogue : on the ethics of literary reputation.

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"Anybody who toils in the rewarding vineyard of Orwell studies will continually find, more to his pleasure than his discomfort, that John Rodden has been there before him, both tilling the soil and refreshing it." Christopher Hitchens, journalist, literary critic, and author of more than a dozen books, including Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, Why Orwell Matters, and Letters to a Young Contrarian "A first-class addition to the growing literature on Orwell's literary significance. Rodden brilliantly demonstrates how Orwell influenced such disparate writers as Irving Howe, John Wain, Kingsley Martin, and Norman Podhoretz. His chapters on Howe and Wain alone are by themselves a major contribution to our understanding of the significance of these two important writers. The book is also an excellent overview of the intellectual currents in the Anglo-American literary world during the last half century. Both the specialist in Orwell studies and the educated general reader will find new insights into the impact that Orwell's writings have had." John Rossi, Professor of History, La Salle University再读一些...